Outlook / the University of Maryland, College Park (1993)

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OUTLOOK

A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK

September 7, 1993
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1

President Clinton Attends Summer of Service
Forum at College Park

Alternately sitting and pacing in
the open forum stvle lie lias mas-
tered. President Bill Clinton hosted
the August 31 "Summer of Service"
forum at the Stamp Student Union in
an effort to rally support for his
national service initiative program,
which links community service with
higher education.

Speaking directly to the president,
a fraction of the 1,500 students who
participated in the 16 nationwide
pilot programs this summer shared
their thoughts, concerns and experi-
ences over the past summer.

Standing under the red, white and
blue "Summer of Service" banner in
the Stamp Union's Colony Ballroom,
President Clinton said to the stu-
dents: "If every American did what
you did for the last two months, we
could revolutionize our country.
There is no problem we could not
solve... You are this country."

Summer of Service, which has
been called a kind of domestic Peace
Corps, is a $9 million trial run of the
Clinton Administration's national
service initiative. In return for a
$1,000 educational stipend, students
worked for eight weeks at minimum
wage on a variety of community pro-
jects in the areas of health, education,
environmental cleanup, public safety
and disaster relief.

In Maryland, 75 students, 17 of
which were College Park students,
participated in the M POWER pro-
gram. Developed by the university's
Center for Political Leadership and
Participation (CPLP) in cooperation
with the Maryland Student Service
Alliance, M POWER participants
served on community projects to
assist inner-city children in Baltimore.

"If people have the opportunity to
give back to the communitv, it reallv
enriches your life," says campus
senior Shawn Bartley, who tutored

and mentored middle-school kids in
Baltimore. "If you do good deeds for
people, you'I! always be wealthy."
Bartley, who had neveT really been
exposed to the inner city before
MPOWER, says the goal of his pro-
gram was to let kids have fun, but
also to teach them to "respect one
another and not be so confrontational
all the time."

Besides the stipend, students like
Bartley earned college credit for
attending a mandatory course in
leadership taught by university facul-
ty at no charge.

"We are here to change people's
attitudes about service," says Ermette
Puree, communications director for
CPLP. "Today, President Clinton's
heart was here... This is a Kennedy-
csque thing he wants to bring back."

The National and Community Ser-
vice Act is expected to pass a final
Senate vote this week and become law.
— Michael Koster

OUTLOOK Interviews New Provost

Shortly after he arrived on campus this
summer, Daniel Fallon, the university's

Summer News Digest new provost, met with OUTLOOK Act-

ing Editor join; Fritz to discuss academic

Groundbreakings, Conferences, ^ issues affecting the university. The fol-

NVw Initiatives J lowing are excerpts:

library NeWS JF ; Welcome to College Park, or

should 1 say welcome back? Did you
Agnew Visits Collection. f ever visit the campus when you

Staff Learn to Sign O were growing up in the Washington,

DC area?

1993 Arrivals

DF: When I was a high school stu-

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must have been the Agricultural

Experiment Station — 1 think it paid

$1 an hour. I showed up early in the

morning, got on a little van, and

drove out to the wilderness near
Cumberland and Hagerstown. 1 har-
vested alfalfa off of experimental
plots all day long, and brought those
home at the end of the day, weighed
them and turned them in.

1 realize you haven't been on cam-
pus very long, but what will your
goals be as College Park's chief aca-
demic officer?

Our goals are already well-estab-
lished by the community. Obvious
ones include the notion of developing
College Park to a status of rather
unquestioned and unchallenged lead-

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President Clinton with
Summer of Service

participants

Daniel Fallon

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First Senate Meeting Set for September 13th

The College Park Senate will hold its first meeting of the 1993-94 academic year
on Monday, September 13th. The meeting convenes at 3:30 in 0200 Skinner,
and is open to the campus community. President Kir wan will give his annual
"State of the Campus" address and answer questions. Call 405-5805 for more
information or a copy of the agenda.

University to Study Pilot Implementation of PMP

The administration will conduct a
pilot implementation of the Perfor-
mance Management Process (PMP)
program that was recommended in
the Mercer pav study last year.

Susan TayloT, associate professor
in the College of Business and Man-
agement and an expert in perfor-
mance appraisal personnel systems,
will direct the study. She has con-
ducted similar studies for several
hospitals, the Maryland Department
of Employment and Economic Devel-
opment and the citv of Norfolk, Vir-
ginia.

The first stage of the pilot study,
which began late last month, involves
interviews with classified and associ-
ate staff to learn more about initial
reactions to the PMP program when
it was proposed last vear. Taylor will
also meet with staff from the Contin-
uous Improvement office to learn
how the PMP program might be inte-
grated with the university's CI efforts.

Throughout the early part of this
semester, Taylor will also be working
with members of the Personnel Advi-
sory Committee (PAC).

After initial interviews with staff
and PAC, Taylor plans to test a
revised PMP system on a broad cross-

section of staff for about three
months. Taylor says approximately
1 00 randomly chosen employees and
their supervisors will operate under
the revised system after initial train-
ing in procedures and policies. They
will then be interviewed for their
reactions and suggestions.

After more broad -based consult-
ing with staff, Taylor will then evalu-
ate the study and make any necessary
policy recommendations for its
implementation in a report to be
delivered to the president next spring.

Taylor, who is being released from
teaching duties this semester and
from one class in the spring to con-
duct the pilot study, says she plans to
provide progress reports on the
study, such as when the revised PMP
program is created this fall and after
the pilot program is finished in the
spring.

According to Dale Anderson,
director of Personnel Services, the
primary objectives of the pilot study
will be 1) to ensure the PMP system
complements other important cam-
pus initiatives such as Continuous
Improvement; 2) to reflect the needs
of associate staff, administrators and
classified employees; and 3) to be cer-

tain that employees and supervisors
have the skills to make the PMP sys-
tem work effectively.

Taylor invites staff to call her (405-
2240), her graduate assistant Suzanne
Masterson (405-2162), or Dale Ander-
son (405-5648) for more information
about the study or to make comments.

— John Fritz

The Personnel
Services Advisory
Council

Co-chaired by Stewart Edel-
stein (405-1681) and Joan Wood
(405-2096), members of the Per-
sonnel Services Advisory Coun-
cil include: Lillian Adams, Dale
Anderson, Gladys Brown, Char-
lotte Cook, David Cooper,
Charles Fell, Christopher
Ferguson, Lettie Gaskins, Alice
Jao, Justine Johnson, Stephen
Kallmyer, Maria Pa din, Karen
Phillips, Carol Prier, Charles
Stubbs, Brenda Testa and Robert
Wilson, Jr.

Regents Restructure System Agricultural Programs

At its August meeting, the Board
of Regents voted to restructure the
University of Maryland System's
agricultural programs by giving
administrative control of the Agricul-
tural Experiment Station and Cooper-
ative Extension Service to UMCP's
College of Agriculture.

Effective October 1, 1993, this
action places the functions and
responsibilities for these statewide
programs and for resident instruction

at one institution. The UMCP Dean of
Agriculture will ensure that both AES
and CES are able to draw on
resources of all UMS institutions.

Collectively known as the Mary-
land Institute for Agriculture and
Natural Resources (M1ANR), the
Cooperative Extension Service (CES)
has been separate from the College
Park campus since 1976; the Agricul-
ture Experiment Station (AES) since
1979. After October 1, MIAN R will

cease to exist as an administrative
unit.

"We are pleased with the decision
to return the Cooperative Extension
Service and the Agricultural Experi-
ment Station to College Park," said
President William E. Kirwan. "It is an
important move that underlines and
reinforces our land-grant
mission."

University Receives Grant From NCAA

The University of Maryland has
been awarded a $14,394 grant from
the National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
ciation (NCAA) to develop a campus
and community wide alcohol educa-
tion program around athletic events.
The grant was awarded to the UMCP
Athletic Department and the Univer-
sity Health Center's Office of Sub-
stance Abuse Programs.

The university is one of eight col-
leges in America to receive a grant in
this third round of awards. The
NCAA funds will go to sponsor a
multifaceted alcohol abuse preven-
tion program entitled "Terp Choic-
es." For more information about the
grant and its activities please contact
Patty Peri Ho at 314-8124.

OUTLOOK

Outlook is the weekJy faculty- staff newspaper serving
the College Park campus community.

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Vice President for

Institutional Advancement

Roland King

Director of Public Information

Judith B.iir

Director of University Publications

John Fritz

Acting Editor

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NEWS DIGEST

Summer News Digest

While i/o is were atony, OUTLOOK'S two
summer issues (June 21 mid July 19)
reported the following stories:

Survey Methodology

The country's first Master of Sci-
ence degree in Survey Methodology
is now being offered tit College Park
through a joint program with the
University of Michigan and Westat,
Inc., a survey organization located in
Rockville, Md.

The program, which will be
administratively headquartered in
the College of Behavioral and Social
Sciences (BSOS) and directed bv Stan-
lev Presser, professor of sociology,
will utilize expertise found in BSOS
as well as in the Colleges of Educa-
tion; Business and Management; and
Computer, Mathematical and Physi-
cal Sciences; and the School of Public
Affairs.

Maryland-Moscow Conference

Seven high-ranking Russian offi-
cials met with U.S. business leaders
in College Park this summer for a
c on f e re nee a n d bu s i n es s d i a 1 ogue
titled "Russia and the United States —
Economic Progress Through
Cooperation."

Sponsored by Maryland-Moscow,
Inc., an independent, non-profit cor-
poration established by UMCP, and
the Russian Academy of National
Economy, the meeting helped to cre-
ate and advance business relations
between Russia and the Newly Inde-
pendent States.

NSF Urban Education Grant

Clarence Stone, professor of gov-
ernment and politics, is studying the
politics of urban education in ten
large American cities under a
$420,(100 National Science Foundation
grant.

The research will examine the con-
nections between schools and many
other urban institutions that con-
tribute formally and informally to the
process of education, particularly the
civic and political circumstances that
have allowed some cities to respond
to the crisis in urban education more
effectively than others.

Goldhaber Retires

Jacob Goldhaber retired after 32
years of service. While at College
Park, Goldhaber served as chair of
the math department, chair of the
Campus Senate, acting dean for
Graduate Studies and Research, and
acting provost.

New MBA Curriculum

The MBA program in the College
of Business and Management has a
new curriculum. It features an
emphasis on "action learning," or

experience-based rather than lecture-
or case-based learning. Other initia-
tives include Experiential Learning
Modules, which are intensive week-
long courses focusing on topics such
as leadership or business ethics; an
increase in the number of electives
available to students; and the addi-
tion of a comprehensive communica-
tions program.

Van Munching Hall Gift

Leo Van Munching, Jr. pledged $5
million to the university to help
defray the cost of the building hous-
ing the College of Business and Man-
agement and the School of Public
Affairs, now called Van Munching
Hall.

Van Munching, a College of Busi-
ness and Management alumnus, is
president of Van Munching & Co.,
the sole importer of Heineken and
Amstel Light beers.

Groundbreaking

Two groundbreakings were held
in July. A new $26.3 million, seven-
story Plant Sciences Building, sched-
uled for completion in March of 1 945,
will bouse the Departments of Ento-
mology and Horticulture and the
Center for Agricultural Biotechnolo-
gy. A new Computer and Space Sci-
ences Building, also scheduled for
completion in 1995, will house much
of the Computer Science Center and
part of the Department of Meteorology.

AT&T Computer Lab

An AT&T donation of more than
$100,000 will enhance the teaching of
foreign languages. A networked,
computer-controlled audio/ video
language lab, designed for use as an
interactive classroom as well as an
individual study facility, will be used
for process-oriented writing instruc-
tion and will provide students with
the ability to become involved in
long-distance collaborative projects
via electronic mail.

Summer Science Institute

College Park was one of four sites
nationwide that hosted a Summer
Institute for Middle School Science
Teachers. Sponsored by the National
Science Teachers Association and the
Association of Presidential Award ees
in Science Teaching, the local institute
was directed by David Lockard,
director of the university's Interna-
tional Clearinghouse on Science and
Mathematics Curricular Develop-
ments.

Ion Beam Lithography

The university is establishing a
national center of excellence for ion
beam lithography research through a
$250,000 Maryland Board of Public

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Van Munching Hall

Works allocation. The ion beam
lithography program was established
last year through a $7.5 million grant
from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Development of the ion beam lithog-
raphy program at College Park is the
result of efforts by the university, the
Governor's office, the Maryland con-
gressional delegation, the Maryland
Department of Economic and
Employment Development, and a
consortium of high-technology busi-
nesses headquartered in Maryland.

Jerusalem Peace Conference

A dozen College Park students,
faculty and staff members traveled to
Jerusalem this summer to help broker
greater understanding between a
group of Palestinian and Israeli
students.

The meeting, which focused on
religion in the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict, was attended by students and
faculty from Jerusalem's Hebrew
University; Bir Zeit University, locat-
ed on the West Bank and serving
mainly Muslim Palestinians; and
Bethlehem University, also located on
the West Bank, but serving mostly
Christian Palestinians. The trip was
part of the Center for International
Development and Conflict Manage-
ment's "Religion and Peace Project."

Odyssey of the Mind

College Park hosted the 14th
Annual Odyssey of the Mind World
Finals Competition from June 1 to 7.
About 14,000 participants from 47
U.S. states, the District of Columbia
and 17 other countries attended the
competition which tests the creative
problem-solving skills of students
from kindergarten to college.

International Cello
Competition

German cellist Alban Gerhard t, 24,
took first prize in the University of
Maryland International Leonard Rose
Cello Competition held at College
Park from July 17 to 24. Open to cel-
lists between the ages of 18 to 30, the
competition attracted 129 applicants
from 28 countries.

— Digest compiled by Beth Workman

Jacob Goldhaber

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Fallon Q&A

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ership among research universities.
That's a difficult order because there
are a lot of very good research insti-
tutions in the United States. But it
certainly is a goal that we should all
look forward to achieving.

Also, I think a number of themes
and sob-themes are obvious. Today,
the university and society are facing a
lot of challenges, so it's going to be
increasingly important for research
universities to be able to identify par-
ticular goals that need to be protected
and developed. For that reason, I
think leadership on the part of faculty
and administrators is critical, because
otherwise the university runs the risk
of being shaped very heavily by
forces external to it. We have to find
our internal values and express those
as clearly as we possibly can.

Secondly, I think universities in
the U.S. must find a way to relate
effectively in an ongoing way to the
communities of which they are a part.
That leads me to believe that we will
need to emphasize, in ways we have
not commonly done in the past, the
relationships
between the
research findings
that we generate
and the practical
application of those
discoveries to
society.

Finally, in
attempting to con-
vey the nature of
knowledge and the
nature of research
we need to continue
to refine and
improve our teach-
ing processes.

Your assessment
underscores recent
difficulties for
public colleges and
universities: bud-
get cuts, enroll-
ment caps, and more concerns over
faculty workloads. Has higher edu-
cation lost its privileged position in
American society?

Well, I'm not sure the question is
framed in just the right way. 1 think
the better way of looking at this is to
say that indeed something very sys-
temic is going on right now in which
universities and colleges are being
reshaped in ways that serve the pub-
lic interest whether or not colleges or
universities themselves want to do
this. This is related I think to the nat-
ural evolution in a highly developed,
civilized society. Without going into a
lot of detail, I am certain that a thought-
ful analysis would show that we are
now entering an era of what .will be
characterized as mass- higher education.

What do you mean?

Weil, take high school education
as an example. When we have more
than 50 percent of the population
having had some exposure in sec-
ondary school, sociologists would say
we have mass secondary education.
That happened in this country
around 1905 to 1915. Now, something
like 90 percent of the population has
exposure to secondary school. We
have just entered an era in which
close to 50 percent of the American
population has had some exposure to
post-secondary education. 100 years
from now, one might imagine that 80
to 90 percent of the population will
have exposure to post-secondary
education, including the community
college sector. We have a pretty good
understanding in this country about
the meaning of a high school diplo-
ma. If you're an 1 1th grader living in
Maryland and your family moves to
Montana, you can move right into the
1 1th grade in Montana and not notice
very much difference.

But we don't have consensus
about what a B.A. degree is. Twenty
years ago, it was not common at all
for students to be able to transfer
English 101 from college X to college
Y. So the public in its various forms
said "This is outrageous!" As a result,
today you can take English 101 at
College Park and transfer it to Berke-
ley, and nobody asks any questions.
There are going to be pressures for
universal access, for national stan-
dards, for a full integration of the uni-
versity into a common understanding
of what a university does.

How do you feel about the faculty
workload issue? Can faculty ever
satisfactorily quantify what they do?

First, I think that the public does
have a need to know how faculty
occupy their time. I think that is per-
fectly all right. They are paying our
salary.

Secondly, I think that it's very
clear what faculty do. There have
been over 100 investigations of this
since 1930 — I'm talking about studies

that are quite thorough. Every single
one of these studies has indicated
that faculty work somewhere
between 45 and 60 hours a week.
And at research universities more
than 60 or 70 percent of their time is
engaged in activities that ultimately
have direct benefit to classroom
instruction. In comprehensive univer-
sities, that number exceeds 80 per-
cent. So, that's very good — faculty are
hard working.

The difficulties come about in the
interpretation of these things. A good
example is in North Carolina where
there has been an unfortunate recent
conflict between the legislature and
the university. The legislature decid-
ed to expose the universities by send-
ing out auditors and finding out what
faculty were doing. When they were
finished, they found, just like all the
other studies, that the average faculty
member spent 53 to 55 hours a week
working for the university. But the
legislators said faculty don't do the
kinds of things they would consider
to be work. "Forty percent of their
time is spent reading magazines,"
said one legislator.

The necessary work of the faculty
— keeping themselves informed,
looking at scholarly journals in
preparing for their lecture notes and
for all the rest — is misinterpreted by
people as kind of really cushy jobs.
So, the issue here is a question of
communication and perception.

You've written about the German
university and its fundamental com-
mitment to integrating teaching and
research. Can you comment briefly
about implications for College Park
in this area?

I think that one of the tasks for
research universities is in coming to
grips with the relationship of teach-
ing and research in more compelling
and more persuasive ways than they
have done in the past, and being able
to talk intelligently about this. This is
difficult for a number of reasons,
because faculty take for granted that
there is relationship between these
matters. But we don't have a good

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semantic for discussing it, and the
outside world is unconvinced of what
this relationship may be. The general
public has a notion that research
involves solitary activity where
someone is sitting late at night drop-
ping drops into a test tube to see if
something is going to happen. To a
certain extent that is true, but relating
that to the notion of giving a lecture
in introductory chemistry seems a
very big leap.

Yet, that fundamental relationship
between what a scholar does in soli-
tary and sometimes group activity in
attempting to coax nature into reveal-
ing her secrets to us is intimately
related to what goes on in the class-
room. We lose the entire relationship
when we put pressures on the
research faculty members — which do
not have to be all faculty members in
the United States, but do have to be
those faculty members who are con-
gregated in research universities — to
teach instead of doing research.

The only way to ensure that at
some level we are really fully
acquainted with the subject matter of
a given discipline is to ensure that we
have some proportion of our college
and university faculty devoting their
intellectual activities and energies
into pushing the frontier and making
sure we are right at the interface
between what we know and what we
don't know.

Do you think teaching and service
should be as determinative as
research in tenure and promotion
decisions?

1 think that they must play a sig-
nificant role. The complication, espe-
cially for research universities, is that
the validating criteria of a faculty
member's ability to work at the fron-
tier of the discipline are not readily
based upon the intellectual activity
that is demonstrated through
research. Alternatively, if a faculty
member does not meet an expected
minimum on the teaching side, does
the institution have the courage to
say "no?" If you really exceed the
normal teaching expectation by a sig-
nificant amount, shouldn't that make
a difference in respect to where you
are proceeding? I don't think these
questions have easy answers, hut I do
think thi'v art' the right kinds of ques-
tions for faculty to be concerned
a bou t.

Isn't it easier to measure research
than teaching?

Sure, I think that has something to
do with it. But I am not entirely con-
vinced by that argument because I
think that one of the things faculty
are good at is measuring anything
they want. If you really went after it,

you'd have ways in which you could
get a good idea about the quality of
teaching.

But I do think that there are other
parts of this that are more subtle and
more complicated — among those is
the fact that we think of teaching as
one dimensional, but it's not. What 1
mean by this is that if I were to ask
John Q. Taxpayer what he had in
mind by a good teacher, he would
probably describe a professor in front
of a classroom of 100 or so under-
graduates teaching a basic or stan-
dard course in history, English, or
physics. That is, standard teaching to
the standard sophomore. But that's
not ail the teaching that goes on in a
university.

There are lots of other kinds of
teaching that are extremely impor-
tant. My favorite example is Albert
Einstein who was, by the college
sophomore criterion, a lousy teacher.
You would never put Albert Einstein
in front of a class of 100 sophomores,
not in a million years. This was a guy
who kept his back to the ctassroom,
who mumbled all the time, who
picked up thoughts in mid-sentence.
But, it was absolutely right for Cal
Tech and later for Princeton to hire
him. And the few post-doctorate stu-
dents that he taught were greatly
touched by exposure to his intelli-
gence. He was a very caring and com-
passionate teacher with those people,
and the combination of what he had
to say and what they understood of it
changed the world as we know it.

So, universities must find a way to
honor that form of teaching as well as
the standard classroom teaching, but
they have to be courageous about
being able to sort these things
through, find the right role for the
right person, talk in a more persua-
sive way about teaching. We have to
become more sophisticated about the
enterprise of teaching than we
presently are,

What is your assessment of College
Park's undergraduate education
program?

1 think we're doing a lot of good
things from what 1 can tell. My
instincts would be not so much to do
more, but to refine and perfect what
we have been doing since the Pease
Report was issued. I am very
impressed by the Honors program,
by the First Year Focus program, by
the Freshman Seminar program, by a
number of these initiatives. And I
think that to carry them out success-
fully requires a sustained, long-term
effort and that we could easily fail by
trying to do too much and by not
delivering on the promise of those
things we started out to do in the
first place.

But I think even when we come
out of the current economic recession
that we're going to come out in a
"reconfigured way" which is not nec-
essarily going to give us the kinds of
resources we have been used to hav-
ing. I think that like all important
matters in life and society, the only
way to deal with this is based upon
what you know right now today and
tomorrow, and by a sense of what
you really value, what you think is
important.

I guess this goes right back to a
real simple rule, an idealist rule — do
what's right. In this case, it is right, to
pursue the improvement of under-
graduate education for its own sake.
It is right for us to carry out what is
in fact the covenant of the university.
We are in the business of enhancing
civilization and perfecting civilization
by making the tools and ideas of civi-
lization available to more and more
people. It's Teally not a question of
resources or where the economy is
headed, it's a question of getting the
job done.

You don't see that philosophy com-
peting with the research mission
you described earlier?

I think even if we had unlimited
resources, the conflicts and tensions
there are inevitable. But we have to
find a way to link these matters, and
if the research university cannot
describe itself to the public, then the
research university cannot make a
claim on resources and cannot contin-
ue as a justifiable institution.

We must find a way to ensure that
the research mission is maintained,
that we have a strong research facul-
ty, that we continue to generate the
products of research. We have to do
that at the same time we improve
undergraduate education and deliver
on that promise. We can do that, it's
just hard work, but it does need to be
done and it's something that we can-
not finesse, and we can't pretend will
happen by itself.

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International Speaking Partners Program Needs Volunteers

The Maryland English Institute is looking for American volunteers to meet once a week for an
hour of conversation with one to two international students studying English at MEL Partners
can be faculty, staff, or students. ME I students are both graduates and undergraduates and
come from all over the world. Applications should be submitted by September 17, and partners
will be matched at an informal reception on October 1. The institute is also introducing a new-
program this semester called "Welcome Home to Maryland," which is designed to give inter-
national students an opportunity to interact with an American family or household. This "con-
tact family" will meet their student at a reception and will then get together with them three
times during the semester for dinner, sightseeing, a movie, etc. Applications should be submit-
ted bv September 28, Call 405-UMEI for brochures and applications for both programs.

Former Vice President Agnew
Visits Libraries

Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew holds a hand-carved
mask that was given to him by a foreign dignitary and is
now a part of the Agnew collection at the College Park
Libraries. Assisting the former Vice President is Lauren
Brown (right), curator of the Archives and Manuscripts
Department.

Former Vice President Spiro T.
Agnew visited the Archives and
Manuscripts Department of McKeldin
Library on Thursday, July 2^, in con-
nection with his planned donation of
additional materials to the Libraries.

Mr. Agnew' s papers, which cover
his service as Baltimore County Exec-
utive, Governor of Maryland, and
Vice President from 1969 until Octo-
ber 1973, represent the largest single
collection in the Libraries' Archives
and Manuscripts Department.

A luncheon was held in the
Katherine Anne Porter Room for Vice
President Agnew and his wife, Judy,
who accompanied him on the
visit here.

Libraries' staff, including Lauren
Brown, curator of Archives and

Manuscripts, and Anne
Turkos, associate curator
of Archives and Manu-
scripts, briefed the former
Vice President on the sta-
tus of the processing of his
papers which were donat-
ed to the Libraries in 1974.
Due to prior restrictions
on the papers and the
scope of the work
required, the first segment
of Agnew Papers was not
available to the academic
research community until
this past March. A second
installment of papers is
expected to be made avail-
able later this vear.

Following the visit, the
former Vice President
w r rote to Director of
Libraries H. Joanne Harrar to tell her
how much he and Mrs. Agnew
enjoyed themselves while on campus.
He wrote, in part, "...it was delightful
to meet the people who are working
on mv papers and to enjoy such a
friendly, hospitable luncheon with
important university officials.

"I am elated by the enthusiasm of
the entire team, and I particularly
want to commend the meticulous and
tireless efforts of Lauren Brown and
Anne Turkos. There is no doubt that
the processing of my contribution is
receiving the best attention. Please
convey our appreciation to all con-
cerned and especially to the students.
Their energy and vigor are infectious."
— Fnmk Bodies

Libraries Offer Sign Language Classes for Staff

course on August 31 . The
sessions, given by R idle lie
Ham met t, coordinator of
Disability Support Services

%on campus, were held
from noon to 2 p.m. on six
consecutive Tuesdays. The
course was set up as a
brown bag lunch program
with the participants'
lunch period inciuded in
the two-hour session.

Libraries' staff complet-
ing the course included
Heidi Hanson, Lorraine
Hayes, Delores Huff, Donna King,
Yeo-Hee Koh, Patti Longenbach, Dan
Newsome, Esther Simpson, Alesia
Wilson, and Julia Wisniewski.

The Libraries hope to sponsor
additional classes for staff who deal
directly with the public.

Communicating, in foreground, are Dan Newsome
assistant in Rapid Cataloging, and Heidi Hanson,
head. Catalog Management Department.

To insure that they can communi-
cate with and assist deaf or hearing-
impaired patrons and co-workers, 10
staff from the UMCP Libraries com-
pleted a course in American Sign
Language this past month.

The group, from the Libraries'
Technical Services Division, began
meetipg on July 27 and completed the

technical

assistant

Children of faculty and staff participate in the
Art Center's Family Arts Program in the dark-
room lab with their photo instructor.

Art Center Reaches
Youth With Summer
Camp

In a period of declining creative
arts programs in public school sys-
tems, the Art Center is emerging as
an important new extracurricular
resource for children and teens.

Originallv taught by parents, the
"Family Arts Program," created bv
the Art Center four years ago, is now
taught bv university students.

In three years, the Family Arts
Summer Camp has expanded a tuto-
rial style of teaching to a full day
camp, serving the University of
Maryland faculty, staff, and student
families as well as the local commu-
nity. This year's camp-the most suc-
cessful to date — was taught by
students Beth Holmes and Suzanne
McCahill, along with visiting artists
from the studenl conummitv and I In:
Art Center's staff.

Many of the student teachers come
from the "Teach ing-in-Training" pro-
gram, supervised by Barbara Tyroler,
the Art Center's current Photography
Department manager and coordina-
tor of special projects.

"I think the most valuable lesson
the children learn through the camp
is to take themselves seriously," says
Terry Nauheim, a drawing instructor.
"Every piece that they make is
important because they made it
themselves. When they leam to
respect their work, they take on a
style of their own."

The Art Center is constantly look-
ing for teachers and volunteers to
assist with various activities. The cen-
ter also offers classes for adults in the
arts and self-development areas such
as Tai Chi, harmonica, and budget
travel. For a special preview of class-
es, stop by on December 10 for the
annual Open Flouse. For a fall sched-
ule of classes or further questions,
call 3 14- ARTS.

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Volunteers Needed For Nutrition Study

Men and women are needed tor a paid nutrition study at the USD A in
Beltsville, MD. Volunteers must be between the ages of 40 and 65, non-smok-
ing and willing to consume alcoholic beverages. The study will consist of two
ten-week phases; phase one begins in the fall of 1993, and phase two begins in
January, 1994, If interested, please call (301) 504-8168 and leave your name,
address, and daytime phone number.

NEWS

Kudos to...

Michael Fisher, Distinguished Professor of
the Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, has been named the 1993
University of Maryland System's Regents
Professor In the area of physical sciences.
Fisher is only the second person selected for
the prestigious title. Adam Yarmolinsky of the
University of Maryland Baltimore County was
the first last year. In announcing Fisher's
selection at its August meeting, the Board of
Regents noted Fisher's "great academic dis-
tinction, his extraordinary record of scholarly
productivity and his wonderful capability to
present difficult material clearly and elegantly
to diverse audiences."

Prior to arriving at College Park In 19S7, Fisher, who holds B.Sc. (1st class honors) and
Ph.D. degrees in physics from King's College, London University, taught at King's, the
Rockefeller Institute and Cornell University. Among his many awards, Fisher is a Fellow of
the Royal Society (elected 1971), a member of the American Academy of Sciences (elected
1979), and a winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics (1980).

The Regents Professorship was established by the Board of Regents In order to recog-
nize one or more faculty members whose record of scholarly achievement and potential for
truly exceptional service to the system and its institutions warrants appointments to this
most prestigious rank in the University System,

New Faculty

Agriculture:

Frank Coale (Assoc. Prof.); Julie
Cronk (Asst. Prof.); Margarita 1 iill
(Asst. Prof.); Elmina Hilsenrath (Asst,
Prof.); Mark Nerlove (Professor).

Arts and Humanities:

William Cohen (Asst. Prof.); Scott
McGinnis (Asst. Prof.); Michael Mor-
reau (Asst. Prof,); Brian Richardson
(Asst. Prof.); Jane Sharp (Asst. Prof.);
William Sherman (Asst. Prof,); Shu
Guang Zhang (Asst. Prof.).

Business and Management:

Philip Evers (Lecturer).

Behavioral and Social Sciences:

Sandra Azar (Assoc. Prof.); Jill
Boberg (Asst. Prof.); Guillermo Calvo
(Professor); Kenneth Conca {Asst.
Prof.); Peter Cramton (Assoc. Prof.};
Brian Fikkert (Lecturer); Peter Garber
(Professor); Martha Geores (Asst.
Prof.); Lisa Goodman (Asst. Prof.);
Mark Graber (Asst. Prof.); Ollie John-
son (Lecturer); Roberto Korzeniewicz
(Asst. Prof.); Rachel Kranton (Lectur-
er); Carole Marks (Assoc, Prof.); Arijit
Sen (Asst. Prof.); Anand Swamy
{Asst. Prof.).

College of Library and Information
Services:

Marilyn Pettit (Asst. Prof.); Ann
Prentice (Professor and Dean).
Computer, Mathematical and Physi-
cal Sciences:

James Anderson (Asst. Prof.); Eliz-
abeth Beise (Asst. Prof.); Sarah Eno
(Asst. Prof.); Michael Franklin (Asst.
Prof.); Alessandra lozzi (Asst. Prof.);

Marvin Leventhal (Professor and
Chair of Astronomy); Victor
Yakovenko {Asst. Prof.).

Education:

Sharon Con ley (Assoc. Prof.);
Ernestine Enomoto (Asst Prof.);
Willis 1 lawley (Professor and Dean);
James McGinnis (Asst. Prof.); Victor
Nolet (Asst. Prof.); Margaret Rogers
(Asst. Prof.); Hak Ping Tarn (Asst.
Prof.); Linda Valli (Assoc. Prof.).

Engineering:

James Baeder (Asst. Prof.); Balaku-
rnar Bladiandran (Asst. Prof.); David
Schmidt (Professor and Chair,
Aerospace Engineering); Alba Tor-
rents (Lecturer); Norman Wereley
{Asst. Prof.).

Health and Human Performance:

Aris Christou (Chair, Department of
Materials and Nuclear Engineering);
I lorace Russell {Assistant Dean and
Director Minority Graduate Student
Education); Steven Spivak (Acting
Chair, Fire Protection Engineering).
Linda Jackson (Asst. Prof.).

Life Sciences:

Jeffrey Davis (Asst, Prof.); Jeffrey
DeStefano (Asst. Prof.); Marvin Lev-
enthal {Professor); Carol Pontzer
(Asst. Prof.); Soichi Tanda (Asst.
Prof.).

Public Affairs:

Ivo Daalder (Asst. Prof.); Daniel
Fallon (Professor); Robert Nelson
{Professor); Peter Reuter (Professor).

Maurine Beasley, journalism, whose
book, Taking Their Place: A Documen-
tary History of Women And journalism,
was recently published.

Disability Support Services, for

receiving two publication awards at
the annual meeting of the Association
on Higher Education and Disability.
Reasonable Accommodation was award-
ed first prize for a faculty handbook,
and the Disability Support Services
(DSS) brochure received first prize in
the brochure category.

Theodore Ifft, agricultural engineer-
ing, who was one of eight people to
receive the Soil and Water Conserva-
tion Society's Fellow Award for his
leadership in developing public
information programs in natural
resource conservation.

Mancur Olson, economics, who
received an award from the Social
Issues in Management Division of the
Academy of Management for his
book. The Logic of Collective Action.

Paul Wasserman, library and infor-
mation services, who has been award-
ed a Fulbright grant to Poland at the
Institute of Library and Information
Sciences, University of Warsaw.

New Administrators

Johnetta Davis (Associate Dean for
Graduate Minority Affairs); Ed Fink
(Acting Associate Dean for Graduate
Studies); Lynn Van Wagenen (Assis-
tant Comptroller and Bursar).

Arts and Humanities: Kathleen Car-
roll {Center Alliance for Secondary
School Teachers and Texts).

Behavioral and Social Sciences:

William Hall (Chair, Psychology);
Sharon Harley (Director, Afro-Ameri-
can Studies Program); Mark P. Leone
(Chair, Anthropology).

Lynn Van Wagenen

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CALENDAR

Outlook Calendar Adopts New Role:

As of September, 1993, OUTLOOK no longer wil! maintain calendar listings for
its calendar page. A new calendar coordinator, Shira Meirovich, instead will
maintain a calendar clearinghouse as part of the overall function of the Office
of Public Information. From this database, all campus papers (including OUT-
LOOK) can retrieve up-to-date listings for their publications. OUTLOOK will
continue to publish calendar information in its regular format. To list with the
calendar clearinghouse, send all calendar items to Shira Meirovich, 2101
Turner Lab, College Park, MD, 20740. For further information, call 405-4628.

Three Classified Employees Chosen for Recognition Awards

&

Due to their outstanding perfor-
mance and service, Connie Arnett,
Barbara Bennett and May Nee have
been chosen as this year's recipients
of the university's Clerical /Secretari-
al Recognition Award.

The awards, which are given
based on nomination letters from
colleagues, were presented by Mar-
garet Bridwell, chair of the Presi-
dent's Commission on Women's
Affairs at the Professional Concepts
Exchange Luncheon held this sum-
mer.

Connie Arnett has been with the
university for 11 years and currently
serves as an administrative aide sup-
porting the director's office in the
Department of Residential Facilities.

She has been active in a number
of campus committees, including the
Personnel Practices Conference Com-
mittee — which she chaired in 1987—
and the President's Committee on
Women's Affairs. Also, she was
recently elected vice president of the
College Park chapter of the Universi-
ty of Maryland System Women's
Forum.

Interestingly, Arnett helped create
the award she won six years later. In
1987, as a classified staff representa-

tive on the Women's Commission,
she suggested that a special award
for outstanding classified employees
be offered. Her idea was well-
received, and she chaired the selec-
tion committee in 1988 and 1989.

Barbara Bennett, who has been
with the university for six years, is
an administrative aide in the Divi-
sion of Letters and Sciences. She has
been with the division since it was
established two years ago and,
according to her colleagues, has
"made all the difference."

Until Letters and Sciences became
fully staffed, Bennett wore several
hats, including that of office supervi-
sor, planner, financial manager,
advisor, facilities coordinator, and
personnel processor.

In addition to her duties at Letters
and Sciences, Bennett is currently
pursuing a bachelor's degree here at
the university.

May Nee, who is the office super-
visor for the Department of Records
and Registrations, has been with the
university for over 20 years.

Since 1973 she's worked in the
transcripts office and served as its
supervisor since 1980. For 20 years,
she has worked with thousands of

From left to right: May Nee, Barbara Bennett, and Connie Arnett

students and alumni and estimates
that she deals with over 100,000
requests annually.

In addition to her work in the
transcript office, Nee is a volunteer
mentor for the Office of Multi-Ethnic
Student Education and is the mother
of five children, four of whom have
graduated from the university.

— Kathi/ Etcmtid

September 7-15

B TUESDAY

First Day at Classes, Fall Semester.

Center, no prerequisite required, $5.00.
Call 5-2941 for more info.*

E9 SUNDAY

University of Maryland Men's Soccer,

Photp by: Norman Warkins

f^^^

MEM FRIDAY

vs. Virginia, 2 p.m., Denton Field. Call

Shuttle UM comnwtet routes begin.

4-7005 for more Info,

Call 4-5274 for more info.

University of Maryland Volleyball,

Entries open: Golf. Cross Country &

Calverton Invitational, vs. Seton Hall,
7 p.m.. Cole Field House. Call 4-7009

MEM MONDAY

^^

Tennis Singles, 8:30 a.m.. Reckon}

for more info.

Armory. Call 47218 for more info.

El WEDNESDAY

Art Exhibit: "Inspirations: Watercolors
and Drawings by Greg Mort," opening
reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m., UMUC Arts

0MSE Open House and Student Art
Show, , 1:304 p.m.. Suite 1101.
Hornbake Library. Call 5-5616 for more
info.

Linda Bills, Easing Away (1992), at the Art Gallery beginning Sept. 8

Overeaters Anonymous (HOW), 4:30-

Program Gallery, through December 5.
Call 985-7154 for more info.

Campus Senate Meeting, 3:30-

Physics Colloquium; "The Origin of
Cosmic Rays: A Proposal to Explain

13 WEDNESDAY

6:30, 2107 Healtfi Center. Call 301-

6:30 p.m.. 2000 Skinner Building. Call

Particle Energies, Spectrum and

776-1076 for more info.

Unity Picnic to welcome multi-ethnic

5-5805 for more info.

Chemical Composition," Peter Biermann,

Peer Computer Training: "Intro to

students, sponsored by the Office of

Max Planck Institute, Germany, 4 p.m..

NeXT," 6-9 p.m., 4352 Computer

Peer Computer Training: 'Intra to

Multi-Ethnic Student Education, 4-7 p.m..

Peer Computer Twining: "WordPerfect."

1410 Physics Building. Call 54855 for

Science Center, prerequisite: WAM

Macintosh." 6-9 p.m., 3332 Computer

Denton Field. Call 5-5616 for more info.

6-9 p.m., 3330 Computer Science

more info.

account, $5.00. Call 5-2941 for more

Science Center, no prerequisite required.

Center, prerequisite: Intro to IBM PC,"

info,"

$5.00. Call 5-2941 for more info."

EH SATURDAY

$5.00. Call 5-2941 for more info,*

University Theatre Open House, 7:00 p.m.,
Tawes. Call 5-2201 for more info.

Overeaters Anonymous, 4:30 -6:30,

Systems Seminar 'Applications of

Water Aerobics begin. Call REC-CHECK,

2107 Health Center, Call 301-776-1076

Artificial Neural Network to ECG

University of Maryland Field Hockey, vs.

4-5454 for schedules.

First day to purchase aerobic express

for more info.

Processing," Yu Hen Hi), University of

University of Delaware, 1 p.m., Astroturf

cards. Call 4-7218 for more info.

Wisconsin, 11 a.m., 2168 A.V. Williams

Field (Football Complex], Call 4-7006 for

Reckord Armory opens for Fall.

Building. Call 5-6634 for more info.

more info.

Team Manager Meeting: Football &

Free Aerobics Class, 5:00 p.m.,
Reckord Armory Gym. Call RECCHECK,

Art Exhibit: "Crosscurrents '93." featur-

Creative Dance Lab, for ages 4-18,

Soccer, 5:30 p.m.. 0131 Reckon!

4-5454 for more info.

ing Linda Bi'ts and Kristine Aono,

Department of Dance, 10 a.m.-2 p.m..

Armory. Call 4-7218 for more info.

through Oct. 17, The Art Gallery.

Dance Building. Call 5-7038 for

Deep Water Exercise begins, 6:00 p.m.

Art/ Sociology Building. Call 5-2763 for
more info.

more info,

University of Maryland Volleyball,

ESI TUESDAY

Call 4-7218 for more info.
Free Aerobics Class, 5:00 p.m.,
Reckord Armory Gym. Call RECCHECK,

University of Maryland Men's Soccer, at

Maryland Invitational, vs. Cal Poly-SLO.

Open Rehearsal, Guameri String

4-5454 for more info.

UMBC, 7 p.m. Call 4-7005 for more info.

7 p.m„ Cole Field House, Call 4-7009

Quartet, 5:00 pm, Tawes Recital Hall.

WEM THURSDAY

for more info,

Retention Orientation and Positive

Call 5-5545 for more info.
University of Maryland Women's

Calendar Guide

Enrichment Seminar, noon, Colony

Soccer, vs. Lasalle, 4 p.m.. Denton

Calendar phone numbers listed as 4-xxxx or 5-xxxx siand for the prefix 314- or 405-

Peer Computer Training: Intro to IBM

Ballroom, Union, Call 5-5616 for more

Feld. Call 4-7034 for more info.

respectrvely. Events are free and open to the public unless noted by an asterisk |*).

PC," 6-9 p.m., 3330 Computer Science

info.

*

For more information, call 4054628,

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